Paperspace

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: compute/paperspace says qualifies-with-caveat, compute/paperspace-gradient-free-tier says qualifies

Free allowance: C4, C5 and C7 machines are included in a Free Gradient subscription plan; every machine bills per hour, and a powered-off machine still bills its storage and public IP until destroyed
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: retention-clampeda powered-off machine still bills attached storage, public IPs and add-ons until those are destroyed
Evidence: documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03

Free tier	C4, C5 and C7 machines are included in a Free Gradient subscription plan; every machine bills per hour, and a powered-off machine still bills its storage and public IP until destroyed unit hours; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate C4 at $0.04 an hour, C5 at $0.08 and C7 at $0.30 are available on the Free subscription plan source retention-clamped (binding) a powered-off machine still bills attached storage, public IPs and add-ons until those are destroyed source per-object-cap non-GPU resources such as storage and public IPs have a monthly maximum charge and stop billing once reached source not stated
Identity	email The signup form offers Sign up with DigitalOcean, Sign up with GitHub and Sign up with Google, or an email address and a password, and carries no card field. The vendor states the free tier includes no-cost CPU and GPU instance types with no credit card required. No phone number is asked for on the form and no country limit is stated.
Egress	not stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	unknown
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence note	documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and marks C4, C5 and C7 as available on the Free plan. The important half is the powered-off rule: stop is not a pause here, because storage and IP keep billing until destroyed
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 5

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/pricing/	not published
2026-10-22	docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/pricing/	'All Paperspace resources are billed on a per-hour basis' with 'When a Paperspace machine is powered off, attached storage, public IP addresses, and other add-ons continue to be billed on an hourly basis until you destroy those resources', 'We do not charge for ingress or egress bandwidth', and C4 at '$0.04/hr' listed under 'Subscription Plan: Free, Pro, Growth', quoted
2026-11-02	console.paperspace.com/signup	the signup offers three identity providers or an email and password, with no phone and no card field
2026-11-02	ml-showcase.paperspace.com/guide	the vendor states the free tier needs no credit card
2026-11-02	console.paperspace.com/signup	the signup needs an email account, with no phone and no card field

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keep rate	1.0
keep rate basis	first-party: that machine. This differs from DigitalOcean Droplets, which are billed per second for as long as the Droplet
billing model	unclassified
shape	`{"vcpu": null,"ram": null,"disk": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null,"note": "C4 is the cheapest machine on the Free plan at $0.04 an hour; the C-series runs to C8 at $0.60"}`
session cap	`{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "no vendor reap; powering off stops the compute charge only, and storage and IP continue until destroyed"}`
free tier kind	allowance
burst x	2.0
burst bill	rounds to 1 h
ps	`{"gib": null,"price": "billed hourly while attached, with a monthly maximum","durability": "attached storage, survives power-off","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "until destroyed"}`
net	`{"out": true,"in": true,"ports": "a public IP is billed separately","static_ip": true,"ipv6": null,"allowance": "ingress and egress are free for Paperspace machines"}`

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